>> Another way that doesn't require twice the number of straps would
>> be to cross the straps so the diagonal pull gives you both
>> fore-aft and side-side components.
>However, crossing the straps makes it easier for the car to roll
>over relative to the trailer.
>Choose your poison...
If the rig goes inverted or nearly so, you've got a lot bigger problems
than lateral movement of the car relative to the trailer. Maybe a system
of fore-aft, up-down, and side-side straps at each corner of the car would
serve to fix the car completely from 6-axis movement, but it'd look pretty
silly and, as a practical matter, wouldn't contribute much except in
incidents where there will already be a lot of vehicle damage.
As an academic exercise, the trailer-with-full-car-cage structure needed to
do such a thing would be interesting to engineer... then we can strap ESP
M3s into it and tumble it down an embankment to see if it works... :) :) :)
:) :)
Side note: I've heard tales of cars breaking loose inside the compartments
in the big Ro-Ro car ships that transport cars and trucks overseas... they
tend to pinball around in the compartment until they get to the destination
port. One tale was of about 30 S-Class Mercedes destroyed when one broke
loose. Kind of an expensive oops.
Jim Crider
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